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Why are they all naked? oO

@sundancer So they are easier to paint?  I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that they are Gaesetae and are recorded as fighting naked.  Polybius postulates that they did this so as not to get their clothes caught in the undergrowth and to show their ‘confidence’ to their allies and the enemy.  We don’t have any sources to expalin this from the Gallic side so it could have been that, or for some devotional or religious reason, or just because they had always done it like that.  Who knows?